| 单词 |
molrowing |
| 释义 |
† molrowing Obs. slang.|ˈmɒlraʊɪŋ| Also moll-rowing. [Perh. f. moll n. + row v.3 + -ing1.] a. (See quot. 1860.) So ˈmolrower, a wencher or whoremonger. b. Caterwauling, row, noise.
1860Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) 174 Molrowing, ‘out on the spree’, in company with so-called ‘gay women’. In allusion to the amatory serenadings of the London cats. 1892E. J. Milliken 'Arry Ballads 42 A pootily piped ‘Blooming Lavender’,..as meller as blackbirds in June, Beats 'Andel's molrowings a buster. 1894G. A. Sala Things I have Seen II. xiii. 121 The scene wound up with a great concert of practical cats on the roof, whose diabolical mollrowings still ring in my ears. 1896Farmer & Henley Slang IV. 332/1 Molrower, a whoremonger. |

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